Good question, Ian! For GNU Backgammon the neural nets are using SIMD technology up to avx2, I believe. (I don't think we support avx512 in the neural networks, do we?) However some future programs and neural networks might support this SIMD instruction set. Well, some future neural networks based backgammon programs might even use the GPU, who knows?
More or less all new processors (AMD and Intel) come with avx2 support, so for GNU Backgammon it comes down to the number of cores. The more the better. For other programs you might run on the computer (BGBlitz or eXtreme), I have no idea. -Øystein ons. 11. juni 2025 kl. 15:05 skrev Ian Shaw <[email protected]>: > Hi folks, > > I need to buy a new PC. Aside from the usual browsing, word processing > watching streaming, the only heavy use I'm likely to give it is backgammon > rollouts. > > Assuming that cores and processor speed are still the main drivers of > performance, does anybody have any recommendations for a moderate spec > set-up? I've not kept up to date with the processor world. > > Thanks, > Ian >
